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\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> The critically acclaimed, Nashville-set Off Broadway<\/a> musical Music City<\/a><\/em>, featuring the music of multi-platinum hit songwriter J.T. Harding<\/a>, has found a new home weeks after plans to begin performances at a custom-renovated Times Square area venue were dashed days before performances were to begin.<\/p>\n \n\tGabrielle Palitz tells Deadline that Music City <\/em>now will begin performances on Monday, June 15, at St. Luke\u2019s Theatre, also in the Times Square\/midtown theater district, with an opening night set for Wednesday, June 24. <\/p>\n \n\tSet in the fictional Nashville honky-tonk The Wicked Tickle, Music City<\/em> features original and existing songs by Harding, including hits recorded by such artists as Uncle Kracker (\u201cSmile\u201d), Keith Urban (\u201cSomewhere In My Car\u201d) and Blake Shelton (\u201cSangria\u201d). Harding has also written hits for Darius Rucker, Dierks Bently and Florida Georgia Line.<\/p>\n \n\tThe musical originally opened in a small performance space on the second floor of a historic church on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side in November 2024, extending three times until closing in March 2025. Producers then planned to move the show into a vacant 42nd Street building that once housed New York\u2019s Playboy Club, but after extensive renovations that turned the venue into a working Nashville-style honky-tonk bar, the run was scotched days before previews were to begin last March.<\/p>\n \n\tPalitz said at the time that, as the show was preparing to go into tech, producers \u201cwere made aware of legal issues with the venue that have proven to be challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tToday, Palitz said in a statement, \u201cLike life in the best country songs, Music City<\/em> has had to navigate a few unexpected turns, but we\u2019re thrilled to share that our critically acclaimed production has found a new home at St. Luke\u2019s Theatre. We\u2019re deeply grateful to Out of the Box Theatrics and their founder Liz Flemming for opening their doors to us with such generosity and enthusiasm. Their support ensures that our wonderful cast can continue telling this story, and that audiences will experience the heart and soul of Music City.<\/em> We can\u2019t wait to welcome everyone back to The Wicked Tickle.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs was planned for the 42nd Street venue, St. Luke\u2019s Theatre on W. 46th Street will be transformed into an East Nashville barroom, with the immersive space invites \u201caudiences to step inside a country bar where music, storytelling, and nightlife collide.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe synopsis: \u201cMusic City <\/em>follows two young singer-songwriters into The Wicked Tickle, an East Nashville bar that serves up cheap beer, open mics, and dreams of big breaks. The bar regulars bravely pursue love and music in the face of addiction, poverty, and haunting pasts. But in Nashville, heartbreak is the only thing they hand out for free. Music City<\/em> is an intimate, gritty, and thrilling take on the world of beers, guitars, sawdust, and sunshine.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tReturning to their roles are original cast members Drew Bastian, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Julianne B. Merrill, Leenya Rideout, Andrew Rothenberg, Casey Shuler and Stephen Michael Spencer.<\/p>\n \n\tThe musical features an original book by playwright Peter Zinn and is directed by Eric Tucker, artistic director of the Bedlam theater company where the musical originated. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: The critically acclaimed, Nashville-set Off Broadway musical Music City, featuring the music of multi-platinum hit songwriter J.T. 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